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Nesting in FCP. Any known problems/issues/things to worry about?
I’m fairly new to FCP and I’ve heard rumours that there might be issues with nesting sequences withing sequences. I’ve already ran into a problem where I was getting corrupted sequences when trying to do some basic nesting of sequences containing Motion files.
I just want to get an overall idea what people think. Thanks.
PS. Speaking of Motion files within FCP…. I’ll save that for it’s own posting….. it will need it’s own giant thread.
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I avoid it !
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I’ve been doing it since the day it arrived as a feature. In fact it’s a weekly occurrence. I have no issues with it… right now I have 52 layers in a total of 7 sequences nested into a master sequence. Problems? Zip, zero, nada.
Remember, in FCP, as in flying, pilot error is usually associated with most unhappy results…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com -
Hey Mitch….
Tell me this. Do you have Motion files embedded into any of those sequences, if so to what degree? And, do you ever try doing any heavy editing to the nested sequences?
My master sequence (which included many 5 layers nested sequences, including motion layers), was getting the red screen of ‘can’t show display’ and I would not be able to open that sequence again.
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It’s not the nesting that’s causing the problem. Do you have speed changes in there? Time remapping? I’ll assume you’re running v4.5.
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Yup, running 4.5
I don’t have any speed changes but I have Motion files which have been nothing but a pain from the start…. Actually, now to think about it. When you hit SHIFT-N to get a still image, would that be a time remap when you apply that back onto the timeline? I was doing that to a motion file…. I can see that being a problem.
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And are you nesting at offline then trying to online nested seq ?
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No. All uncompressed. I was just trying to add a motion text layer between nested segments.
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[Dominik Bochenski] “Hey Mitch….
Tell me this. Do you have Motion files embedded into any of those sequences, if so to what degree? And, do you ever try doing any heavy editing to the nested sequences?”
To be fair, I haven’t installed Tiger on the primary editing system yet. We’re in the middle of several projects on that system. It’s on the other two, and I haven’t noticed any issues with nesting there, but haven’t pushed it like I do on the uncompressed system.
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com
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